Life-time Denton resident and business owner. Childhood in Denton, Texas; genealogy; Denton city and country history; area rodeos; schooling in Denton; summer job mowing lawns; country living; various jobs; leather-working and tooling; lack of shotgun shells and metal bathtubs during the Second World War; courtship of wife and marriage; Cowboy Turtle Association; start selling hand-made goods at rodeos; Dallas Sportatorium; professional wrestling; opening a saddle shop and western store in the original building; making saddles; Harpool’s Farm Store; changes in saddle shop; daughter’s involvement in the saddle shop; son’s college years and move to California; rental properties and effect of the recession; thoughts on work ethic.